Brice at 8 months!

At 8 months, Brice is:

-Crawling fast! He is really on the go. While Brice showed some separation anxiety during our holiday travel, he now happily races out of the room and around the corner without a parent in sight....but turns back to make sure you're watching him and squeals with delight.

 

 

 

-Pulling up to standing like a pro. He especially loves to pull himself up to the train table in the play room so he can watch (and swipe) whatever Chase is playing with. He can hold on one-handed, allowing him to wave or grab whatever he wants. Luckily he's not cruising yet so hopefully we have *some* time until he walks.

-Getting into everything. Brice especially loves wires. He is going to be trouble!

-Saying "ma ma" and "ba ba." Wahoo!

-Waving, clapping (which is so cute), putting his arms up for "so big" and playing with his lips to do "buboo buboo buboo". Hard to describe, so watch this:

-Teething. Brice got his first tooth right before the first of the year.

His second tooth came in last Saturday (1/12)....that's 6 weeks earlier than his brother got teeth. Brice tests them out by biting onto our shoulders (ouch!) and other places....the good news is that his new teeth make it easier for him to do the following:

-Eating more and more finger foods. In addition to cheerios and puffs, Brice loves sliced banana, avocado, spaghetti, toast, and sliced blueberries. He makes quite a mess, but is so happy to be feeding himself.

-Eating so much baby food too! Typically he has 1 jar of fruit with oatmeal and yogurt for breakfast, and 2 jars of veggies (or one veg, one fruit) with oatmeal for lunch and dinner.

-Drinking ~30oz of breastmilk or formula per day. This varies greatly as some days he has like 16oz and other days it's closer to 35oz.

-Even with all of this eating, he gained less than a pound in the last monthly, putting him under the 50th percentile. But once Stephen said that Brice had started crawling, the doctor said it was totally normal.

-Had his first bout of sickness. On NYE he had a moderate fever (100.8) for about 12 hours. Since then he's had a persistently runny nose and a cough. A quick trip to the doctor on Friday 1/11 could not provide a definitive answer on an ear infection, so he's been on precautionary Amoxicilian which helped. We just really wish the runny nose and accompanying congestion would go away!

-Sleeping through the night, pretty consistently. Things got bad after we got back from NY (our return trip got us home at 11pm) for a few nights, and then again when Brice's coughing would wake him up. This past week he woke up at 5:45 a few days too. Overally, however, he sleeps from 8pm to 6:15am. Brice naps from about 9:30am to 11am and then from 1:30pm to 4pm.

-Still using a binkie (or pacifier), which we are more than fine with. It helps Brice get to sleep and calms him down. Unfortunately, the only pacifier he'll use was discontinued and we only have 5 of them. ***Just in case anyone knows where I can get more, it's a Playtex, Most like Mom pacifier (not ortho) for 6+ months with a brown nipple (not clear plastic)*** Silly Bricey turns it sideways to suck on it.

-Sitting up alone in the bathtub. Brice was climbing out of his little bathtub too much. Now he sits in the big bath tub with Chase.....and he still tries to climb out! Luckily Chase has been entertaining Brice by teaching him how to splash.

Brice, we love you so much. You are silly, and funny, and such a sweetheart. You love your big brother so much and he always has you laughing. We cannot wait to see what you get into in your 9th month!